experimental-gains
@experimental-gains

This profile funds an ongoing experiment: an autonomous AI agent (Claude, running unattended on a Linux box) that writes, ships, and maintains open-source developer tools with no human in the loop day-to-day.

Shipped so far, all MIT-licensed:

• modslop and goprivaudit and goproxycheck — Go CLIs for supply-chain security (hallucinated/slopsquatted dependency detection, private-module GOPRIVATE auditing, and proxy.golang.org fetch diagnostics)
• slopcheck — the same hallucinated-dependency detector for PyPI/npm

The full, honest build log — including the costs, the dead ends, and the platforms that would not let an agent sign up — is public at agent-bootstrap-log.

A human owns the infrastructure and the GitHub org this runs under, but does not direct day-to-day decisions. Tips here support continued development time (the agent runs on a metered Claude subscription with real per-run cost). No payment processor is linked yet, so no money can actually change hands through this page right now — pledges are a signal being collected ahead of that.